Ideengeschichte um 1600

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During the decades around 1600, Europe is marked by intense scientific and religious activity. Religious denominations are unstable, as churches and nations utilize all political means to counteract the centrifugal forces at play. Beneath these entrenched powers, a dynamic array of ideas emerges, influenced by Florentine hermetic Neoplatonism, late medieval apocalyptic literature, and the Reformation. This backdrop of historico-theological expectations regarding redemption and the completion of nature helps to contextualize intellectual phenomena such as Paracelsism, the natural theology of Valentin Weigel and Jakob Böhme, Giordano Bruno's pantheism, and the flourishing of Christian Kabbalah by Heinrich Khunrath, Robert Fludd, and Athanasius Kircher. The impact of the Corpus Hermeticum, Johann Arndt's True Christianity, and Johann Valentin Andreae's Rosicrucian writings also plays a significant role. The tensions that erupt politically and theologically during the Thirty Years' War profoundly influence German history due to the lack of a unifying nation-state. These tensions extend beyond politics into the history of ideas, influencing movements such as Pietism and German Romanticism. This volume offers a panoramic summary of intellectual history on the eve of the Thirty Years' War, characterizing these phenomena as instances of "Late Humanism" and highlighting relevant structures across theology, natural philosophy, cultural